A two-tonne rhino struggling to mate with her partner has undergone a delicate ultrasound with a team of vets at a safari park.

There was some competitive fare on offer at yesterday’s well-attended West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Lismore and handler John Queally, who was on the mark with former pointer Gaillimh A Chroi in the listed mares’ bumper at Sandown on Saturday, appears to have a cracking prospect on his hands in Uncle Danny who readily put his rivals to the sword in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Just because you haven’t seen that back of his from the terraces this summer doesn’t mean you’ve seen the back of him.